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Grief after a family death can be overwhelming.

One mission has become finding new, more rapid treatments for bipolar disorder.

Addressing suicide in severely ill patients is a critical unmet need for patients and their families.

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How could I return to ordinary life after my son died ? My grief was overwhelming, spilling into every task and coloring every interaction. Condolences triggered fresh crying jags. I wondered how my eyes could produce so many tears.

Over time, however, my work began to draw me in again, demanding that I return to the scientific questions that had defined my career . The discipline of research began to reassert itself, requiring that I take on the necessary but unrelenting work of writing grant proposals and

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